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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk151

Ex-Midland Railway 2F 0-6-0 No 3704 is seen about to depart Kenilworth on an up local passenger service to Leamington on 28th August 1936

Ex-Midland Railway 2F 0-6-0 No 3704 is seen about to depart Kenilworth on an up local passenger service to Leamington on 28 August 1936. Built by Sharp Stewart circa 1901 this class of locomotives were well regarded by Midland men even if their LNWR colleagues were less enamored. This locomotive would have undoubtedly have been withdrawn earlier than 1946 when it was retired from Stafford shed to be scrapped at Crewe works shortly afterwards if the Second World War had not intervened. This was because the railway companies had to divert their production facilities to aid the war effort instead of building new locomotives.

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